# Senior Backend Engineer, Managed Services at Lightning AI

- Company: Lightning AI
- What the company does: From the PyTorch Lightning creators. Own your AI, don. Backed by Index.
- Company website: https://lightning.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: New York, New York, United States; San Francisco, California, United States; Seattle, Washington, United States
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-07-27
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/lightningai/jobs/7816026003
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/lightning-ai-senior-backend-engineer-managed-services/

## About the role

As a Senior Backend Engineer on the Managed Services team, you'll build the control planes, backend services, and automation that provision, operate, and scale Kubernetes and Slurm clusters across our GPU fleet. Your work will turn raw GPU capacity into production-ready environments where customers can seamlessly train models, run inference, and deploy AI workloads.

## What they're looking for

- Significant professional experience designing, building, and operating production backend systems using Go or Python
- Deep hands-on experience with Kubernetes or Slurm, including operating large-scale production environments
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, and production infrastructure
- Experience designing and building scalable backend services, APIs, and automation for infrastructure or platform operations
- Strong understanding of networking, storage, and cloud infrastructure fundamentals
- Familiarity with observability, CI/CD, testing, production operations, and incident response

Tags: Product Engineering